Pahranagat Valley Head Coach Ken Higbee and his son Christian celebrate after defeating Whittell 54-28 in the NIAA DIV championship game at Dayton High School in Dayton, Nev., on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2015. (Cathleen Allison/Las Vegas Review Journal)

Pahranagat Valley head coach Ken Higbee (Nevada Preps)

ALAMO — When Pahranagat Valley’s football team takes the field next season, it is unclear whether longtime coach Ken Higbee will be with it.

Higbee was charged with a 225-count criminal complaint last week, according to court records from Meadow Valley Justice Court in Pioche. Also the principal of C.O. Bastian High School in Caliente, Higbee faces 76 felony counts that include theft, forgery and misconduct.

Despite the charges, officials at Pahranagat Valley were noncommittal on Higbee’s future with the school.

“Just because there are charges doesn’t mean that anybody is guilty,” principal Mike Strong said Wednesday. “Supposedly in our country we’re innocent until proven we’re guilty. So we’ll see.”

Higbee led the Panthers to a national eight-man record with 104 straight victories and won eight consecutive state championships before falling in the Class 1A state title game to Spring Mountain in November.

Strong and athletic director Brad Loveday confirmed Higbee has been on paid administrative leave since November 2015, following that year’s football season. Loveday said in January he was expecting Higbee’s resignation, calling it a “pretty sure thing” to happen, but had not received it as of Wednesday.

“As of now, he is still the football coach,” Loveday said. “We don’t have any resignation from him or anything like that. It’s totally up to him.”

Neither Loveday nor Strong was willing to discuss termination of Higbee and deferred all questions relating to the possibility of his firing to the Lincoln County School District. Strong said the district put Higbee on administrative leave and that he had no part in it.

District superintendent Pam Teel returned a phone call requesting an interview, but declined to answer any questions involving Higbee, even to confirm if it was the district that put him on leave.

Court records show Higbee’s alleged improper use of funds also benefited other school athletic teams, including baseball, which Loveday coaches. Loveday said he had no reason to believe the new equipment was obtained illegally.

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